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Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain!Just think of all thetrillions and trillions of neuronsthatDIEeach daybecause there areNOeffective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 493 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.My back ground story is here:http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-background-story_8.html

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Marijuana Chokes Alzheimer's-Related Brain Regions

Another sky is falling piece of research. It is vastly more likely that people with low blood flow are
self-treating themselves with marijuana to feel better. Taken from
neuropsychiatric clinics which pretty much proves my point. These
doctors need to learn about cause and effect. This all probably part of
a concerted effort by the drug industry to prevent a non-patentable
drug from entering the marketplace. Over 500,000 stroke survivors a year
in the US could be treated better with marijuana. Don't fall for these
negative articles.

But don't listen to me, I have absolutely no medical training. You are
going to have to figure out how to dose yourself since your doctor will
know nothing and no one will do translational research until our fucking
federal legislators legalize it.

http://www.alzheimersweekly.com/2016/11/marijuana-chokes-alzheimers-related.html
As the U.S. races to legalize marijuana for medicinal and recreational
use, a new, large scale brain imaging study gives reason for caution.
Published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, researchers using
single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), a sophisticated
imaging study that evaluates blood flow and activity patterns,
demonstrated abnormally low blood flow in virtually every area of the
brain studies in nearly 1,000 marijuana compared to healthy controls,
including areas known to be affected by Alzheimer’s pathology such as
the hippocampus.

All data were obtained for analysis from a large multisite database,
involving 26,268 patients who came for evaluation of complex, treatment
resistant issues to one of nine outpatient neuropsychiatric clinics
across the United States (Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Fairfield, and
Brisbane, CA, Tacoma and Bellevue, WA, Reston, VA, Atlanta, GA and New
York, NY) between 1995-2015. Of these, 982 current or former marijuana
users had brain SPECT at rest and during a mental concentration task
compared to almost 100 healhty controls. Predictive analytics with
discriminant analysis was done to determine if brain SPECT regions can
distinguish marijuana user brains from controls brain. Low blood flow in
the hippocampus in marijuana users reliably distinguished marijuana
users from controls. The right hippocampus during a concentration task
was the single most predictive region in distinguishing marijuana users
from their normal counterparts. Marijuana use is thought to interfere
with memory formation by inhibiting activity in this part of the brain.

According to one of the co-authors on the study Elisabeth Jorandby,
M.D., “As a physician who routinely sees marijuana users, what struck me
was not only the global reduction in blood flow in the marijuana users
brains , but that the hippocampus was the most affected region due to
its role in memory and Alzheimer’s disease. Our research has proven that
marijuana users have lower cerebral blood flow than non-users. Second,
the most predictive region separating these two groups is low blood flow
in the hippocampus on concentration brain SPECT imaging. This work
suggests that marijuana use has damaging influences in the brain –
particularly regions important in memory and learning and known to be
affected by Alzheimer’s.”

Dr. George Perry, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease
said, “Open use of marijuana, through legalization, will reveal the wide
range of marijuana’s benefits and threats to human health. This study
indicates troubling effects on the hippocampus that may be the
harbingers of brain damage.” (No it doesn't, you don't know what the fuck you are looking at)

Figure legend: Example of a volume rendered brain SPECT image (top down
view) of a healthy control compared to an 18-year old daily user of
marijuana. While the control subject has symmetric activity, the
marijuana user shows overall decreased perfusion.

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